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[Shiva's Mistress]

Do y'all need pics?

 

[bakEQuatorial]

Do y'all need pics?

Hell yeah Sis! I'm gonna need your help soon with photos. You helped break my Auto cherry. Only fitting you do the same with my photos! Lol

 

[Shiva's Mistress]

Hell yeah Sis! I'm gonna need your help soon with photos. You helped break my Auto cherry. Only fitting you do the same with my photos! Lol

Haha, I can try, for what it's worth.
Where's your grow thread/journal at?

 

[bakEQuatorial]

Haha, I can try, for what it's worth.
Where's your grow thread/journal at?

None yet. Have not started. Am getting everything setup atm. And of course, lotsa reading too…

Can't Wait!

 

[Shiva's Mistress]

LBH Selections -- Round 3 -- Day 26

Some pics of the larger Strain 2 plant outside.
(After another heavy downpour...)

As you can see, there are those four main tops forming a nice even canopy.
They are maybe on their 4th or 5th node already, and looking strong.

Looking at these photos, I can some spots on some leaves.
Probably Calcium deficiency.
But... I think those leaves are the leaves that were just coming out when I transplanted and put outside.
And the newer leaves seem fine. Maybe fairly light in color, but otherwise fine.

Now, my first plan was to top-dress after 4 weeks outside, and it's only 2 weeks.
Of course, it'll take a bit of time for some of the organic amendments to become available.
But... and this is a big issue, they are only getting rain-water, and rain-water here has a pH of around 5.3 or so!!
So this may cause a pH issue, because it's a coco/coil mix and that is a little low (I'm not doing hydro!)
I think will need to top-dress a little earlier, and use more high pH amendments,
like high Ca chicken fert pH 8 and fine dolomite lime pH 7.
What do outdoor growers this of this?
@Weed Warrior @Waira @Jraven @Vlad The Inhaler @smokeyfromau @Growtogrow @Ribbzzy @TheMongol

After all this, I sure hope this turns out to be a female!!!!

 

[St. Tom]

LBH Selections -- Round 3 -- Day 26

Some pics of the larger Strain 2 plant outside.
(After another heavy downpour...)

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As you can see, there are those four main tops forming a nice even canopy.
They are maybe on their 4th or 5th node already, and looking strong.

Looking at these photos, I can some spots on some leaves.
Probably Calcium deficiency.
But... I think those leaves are the leaves that were just coming out when I transplanted and put outside.
And the newer leaves seem fine. Maybe fairly light in color, but otherwise fine.

Now, my first plan was to top-dress after 4 weeks outside, and it's only 2 weeks.
Of course, it'll take a bit of time for some of the organic amendments to become available.
But... and this is a big issue, they are only getting rain-water, and rain-water here has a pH of around 5.3 or so!!
So this may cause a pH issue, because it's a coco/coil mix and that is a little low (I'm not doing hydro!)
I think will need to top-dress a little earlier, and use more high pH amendments,
like high Ca chicken fert pH 8 and fine dolomite lime pH 7.
What do outdoor growers this of this?
@Weed Warrior @Waira @Jraven @Vlad The Inhaler @smokeyfromau @Growtogrow @Ribbzzy @TheMongol

After all this, I sure hope this turns out to be a female!!!!

i love seeing outdoor canna grow and as your on your adventure can you tag me occasionally i live in the UK so we get a 3-month window for putting autos out its not ideal but you need to work with what you have

 

[Shiva's Mistress]

i love seeing outdoor canna grow and as your on your adventure can you tag me occasionally i live in the UK so we get a 3-month window for putting autos out its not ideal but you need to work with what you have

Hey there @St. Tom , long time no see!
Thanks for your good vibes.
Will tag!
Here, I have a 12 month annual grow window, yearly temps about 10C - 40C.
Just max of 13.5 hrs of light a day, and rain, rain, and more rain.
Any thoughts on my issue about top-dressing a rain-water pH?

 

[Jraven]

I've been raising the pH of my water about 1 point with lime lately, but that is still an experiment...I'm not sure if it's a good method or not but my water and soil are both little low @ 5.8.

 

[Shiva's Mistress]

I've been raising the pH of my water about 1 point with lime lately, but that is still an experiment...I'm not sure if it's a good method or not but my water and soil are both little low @ 5.8.

Thanks for that @Jraven
How much lime are using for what quantity/ volume of soil?

 

[Jraven]

Thanks for that @Jraven
How much lime are using for what quantity/ volume of soil?

I'm just adding enough lime to the water I use (to water the plants)to raise it up one point to 6.8. Takes very little but it can take a few test strips to zero in on it. I'm basically trying to make up for not adding enough lime when I ammended my soil this time
I would think top-dressing could do the same